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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Lambeth 1918
Report on the vital and sanitary statistics of the Borough of Lambeth during the year 1918
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TABLE G. Shewing the total numbers of cases of infectious diseases notified compulsory by Medical Practitioners jnder the Notification Clauses of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and the Orders and Regulations made thereunder, in the Borough of Lambeth, during 1918, together with the total numbers of deaths registered from the same diseases, the case mortality per 100 persons for each disease, the numbers of cases removed to hospital, and the numbers of infected houses.
| Cases notified. | Deaths registered. | Case Mortality per 100. | Cases removed to hospital. | Infected houses. | Per cent, of cases removed. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cholera | - | - | _ | — | — | — |
| Smallpox | 1 | - | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | 100.0 |
| Scarlet Feve | 549 | 11 | 2.0 | 511 | 477 | 93.1 |
| Diphtheria | 484 | 45 | 9.3 | 466 | 422 | 96.3 |
| Membranous Croup | 9 | — | 0.0 | 9 | 9 | 100.0 |
| Typhus | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Typhoid or Enteric | 15 | 5† | 33.3 | 14 | 14 | 93.3 |
| Continued and Relapsing Fever | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| Erysipelas | 105 | 4 | 3.8 | 32 | 99 | 30.5 |
| Puerperal Fever | 16 | 10 | 62.5 | 9 | 16 | 56.3 |
| * Plague | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| *cerebral-spinal Fever | 23 | 10 | 43.5 | 17 | 17 | 73.9 |
| *Poliomyelitis acuta | % 1 | 0.0 | 1 | 1 | 100.0 | |
| *Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 50 | - | 0.0 | - | 50 | 0.0 |
| *Whooping Cough | — | 85 | _ | - | — | — |
| *†Measles | 2,721 | 127 | 4.7 | 117 | 2,471 | 4.3 |
| *†German Measles | 402 | — | 0.0 | 4 | 340 | 1.0 |
| *Tuberculosis— | - | |||||
| Pulmonary (primary) | 1061 | 401 | 37.8 | — | 1,061 | - |
| Non-pulmonary (primary) | 361 | 137 | 37.9 | — | 361 | - |
| *Chicken pox | 307 | - | 00 | 7 | 283 | 2.3 |
N.B.—A case of Typhus (male, 2£ years) was removed to Hospital, where it was found to be a case of Zymotic Enteritis.
* Plague was made compulsory notifiable on September 19th, 1900, cerebral-spinal Fever on March 12th, 1907, Poliomyelitis
acuta on September 1st, 1911, Ophthalmia Neonatorum on March 13th, 1911, and Tuberculosis (all forms) on February 1st
1913. Chicken-pox was compulsory notifiable as follows : 1902 (February 7th to December 31st), 1903 (January 1st to 6th),
1904 (April 8th to November 8th), 1911 (March 22nd to June 22nd), 1915 (March 17th-to June 30th), and 1918 (March 27th to
June 30th), the numbers of cases notified being respectively. 1,560, 40, 556, 238, 473 and 307. Whooping Cough was compulsory
notifiable from January 1st, 1913, to December 31st, 1917, the numbers of cases notified being as follows:—1913, 1.428; 1914,
1,389 ; 1915, 1,607 ; 1916, 1,576 ; and 1917, 902. Measles and German Measles became compulsory notifiable on January 1st,
1916.
† Including 24 Military Measles (21 soldiers and 3 nurses), and 13 Military German Measles cases (6 soldiers and 7 nurses).
40 Measles cases were notified by parents (or relatives), in addition to the above.
I Including two deaths in outlying Institutions (Asylums), the cases not being notified to Lambeth as the disease (typhoid)
was in each instance contracted at the Institution; away, from Lambeth.
¶ Death registered as due to "pyrexia" (origin uncertain), but classified by the Registrar-General as a case of "continued
fever." The patient was not notified officially.